Week One

Here are the outline and readings for our first class on Thursday, January 19:

Introduction:

• Discussion of course requirements and reporting China
• Analyzing recent news on China and the “top stories” of 2011
• Looking ahead in 2012, what are some of the major themes we anticipate?
• Workshop assignment: Chinese New Year trend stories, Davos

Readings:

• James Mann, “Framing China,” Media Studies Journal, Winter 1999, pp. 102-107.
• Ying Chan, “The Journalism Tradition,” in Investigative Journalism in China, pp. 1-17.
• Willy Lam, “The Grim Future of the Wukan Model for Managing Dissent,” China Brief, Vol. 12, Issue 1.
• Stanley Lubman, “The Wukan Protests and the Rule of Law,” The Wall Street Journal China Real Time Report, Jan. 7, 2012.
• Sim Chi Yin, “Fear and Tension in Wukan Village,” The Straits Times, Jan. 9, 2012.

Some additional materials:

• “Number of Chinese Internet Users Climbs to 513 Million,” PCMag.com, Jan. 17, 2012.
• “China’s Urban Population Exceeds Countryside for First Time,” Bloomberg News, Jan. 17, 2012.
• “China Turns Predominantly Urban,” The Wall Street Journal, Jan. 18, 2012.
• “China’s Economic Growth Slows to 8.9% in Fourth Quarter,” BBC News, Jan. 17, 2012. (See also related news roundup from BBC here).